25 Leftover Fish Recipes

I cook fish quite often, but rarely have leftover fish. My husband and two oldest children like fish so much that they usually polish off what ever I make for dinner. And if they don’t finish it off for dinner, they will eat the leftovers for breakfast or lunch the next day. The only time I have leftover fish is when my neighbor goes salmon fishing and brings me back salmon steaks so large they don’t fit in a 13 x 9 pan and even then it goes fast! I have to act fast if I want to experiment with leftover fish recipes for dinner the next day. So I turned to my friends and asked them for their favorite recipes that could be adapted to include leftover fish.

Few of the recipes below call for leftover fish. I am sharing them to inspire you. If you match the flavors of your leftover fish to the flavors used in the one of the following recipes you can cut down on the time it takes to make dinner. When you use leftover fish in these recipes, add it when the recipe calls for the cooked fish to be added to the other ingredients or as the final step and cook until just heated through.

I often start with one of these fish recipes and then use the leftovers in one of the recipes below.

Alea Milham is the owner and editor of Premeditated Leftovers. She shares her tips for saving money and time while reducing waste in her home. Her favorite hobby, gardening, is a frugal source of organic produce for her recipes. She believes it is possible to live fully and eat well while spending less.

Comments

Hi Alea,
What a great idea, I will sure have to try some of these awesome recipes. Thank you so much for featuring my Southwest Tilapia Chowder and the Baked Tilapia Cakes, you are very kind.
Happy Valentine Day!
Miz Helen

Aww, thanks for including my tilapia taco recipe! Yes, leftover fish would be a great idea for that. Why didn’t I ever think of that? I will have to save this list since leftover fish is one thing that often stumps me.